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generally hairy on both sides, very rarely glabrous with only the 

 principal veins and margins hairy. Flowers in a subglobular ter- 

 minal head or short ovoid spike, with or without one or two verti- 

 cillasters beneath it. Bracts of the head lanceolate ; of the lower 

 whorls, when present, leaflike ; bracteoles strapshaped-subulate, shorter 

 than the flowers. Pedicels hairy. Calyx hairy, campanulate-cylin- 

 drical ; teeth triangular, acuminated, half the length of the tube, 

 bristly-hairy. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, hairy without and 

 within. Nucules rough with small pomts. 



Var. a, genuina. 

 Leaves more or less hairy, at least beneath. 



"^^'Var. ^, suhglahra^ Baker. 



Leaves glabrous, except on the principal veins beneath. Verticil- 

 lasters more numerous and more remote than m var. a. 



In wet places very common, and generally distributed over the 

 whole of the three kmgdoms. Var. |3 I have collected only at Wey- 

 bridge, Surrey. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Perennial. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Stems 6 inches to 5 feet high. Leaves variable in breadth, the 

 lamina f to 2 inches long. Lowest whorl often remote from the other, 

 and with the cymes stalked. Corolla large, reddish purple, with the 

 stamens uicluded and the styles exserted, and vice versa. 



Var. /3 comes very near M. citrata, but the veins of the leaves, the 

 pedicels, and calyx are pubescent, and the calyx teeth are considerably 

 shorter in proportion ; which last is, indeed, the only positive character 

 that can be adduced as a reason for not regardmg M. citrata as a 

 glabrous variety of M. hirsuta. 



Mr. Baker considers that my specimen of var. 3 from AVeybridge is 

 the plant called M. odorata by Reichenbach and Boreau. M, odorata 

 of Sole is, as previously mentioned, a synonym of M. citrata. 



Hairy Water Mint. 



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Whorls of flowers separated, not all collected into spikes or heads; 

 verticillasters, or at least the lower ones, with large bracts undistinguish- 

 able from the leaves. 



